A casino, a bomb and three million dollars: August 26, 1980

I've never heard this story, even though it was national news: a team of three men dropped a bomb containing 900 pounds of explosives off in the Harveys Casino in Lake Tahoe. They demand three million dollars in unmarked hundred dollar bills in exchange for the information on how to move, not disable, the bomb. The bomb cannot be disabled; it will explode.

The Reno Gazette Journal did an eight day series on the events to mark the 25th aniversary last summer. Fantastic reading.

(via Cardhouse)